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Timberborn presents an indie game offering from developer and publisher Mechanistry, released in 2026. It has 37,088 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment, an overwhelmingly positive rating, and an initial price of $34.99.
Overview
Timberborn is a 2026 Indie game developed by Mechanistry and published by Mechanistry. On Steam it has gathered 38,332 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Mechanistry with publisher Mechanistry is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.5 million to 3.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Timberborn can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
38,332
Positive
96%
Steam appid
1062090
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01.5M to 3.5M
units (median: 2.5M)
≈ $29.9M to $69.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$35 | +15 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Timberborn at roughly 1.5 million to 3.5 million copies, with a median around 2.5 million, derived from its 38,332 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $49.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
49 observed days · window low $24.49Across 49 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.49 to $27.99. The tracked-window low was $24.49 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -30%$24.49 Buy
- Steam reference$34.99 Buy
- Fanatical$39.46 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-01 06:04 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Timberborn sold?
- indielist estimates Timberborn has sold between 1,494,948 and 3,488,212 units (median 2,491,580), derived from its 38,332 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Timberborn?
- Timberborn was developed by Mechanistry and published by Mechanistry.
- Who published Timberborn?
- Timberborn was published by Mechanistry, developed by Mechanistry. See Mechanistry's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Timberborn released?
- Timberborn was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Timberborn have on Steam?
- Timberborn has 38,332 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is Timberborn worth playing?
- Steam players rate Timberborn 96% positive across 38,332 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Timberborn can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Mechanistry's other releases and Mechanistry's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Timberborn sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Timberborn page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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